Nanni di Banco

Quattro Santi Coronati (around 1410-18)

Nanni di Banco (* around 1373 in Florence ; † February 13, 1421 ) was an Italian sculptor of the Florentine School .

Di Banco was the son of a stonemason and was apprenticed to Niccolò d'Arezzo. Along with Donatello, he is one of the main masters of the Renaissance .

Famous works include:

San Luca (1412–13), formerly at the cathedral, today in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
Santi Quattro Coronati ( Four Saints ) (1410–18) at the Orsanmichele Church

Assumption of the Virgin (1414–21) above the Porta della Mandorla of the Florentine Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

literature

Giorgio Vasari : The life of Jacopo della Quercia, Niccolò Aretino, Nanni di Banco and Luca della Robbia. Newly translated into German by Victoria Lorini. Ed., Commented, introduced by Johannes Myssok. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8031-5049-3 .

Web links

Commons : Nanni di Banco - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Nanni di Banco in the catalog of the German National Library
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/n/nanni/banco/index.html

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Stefan Dürre: Seemann's Lexicon of Sculpture . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 288 f. (with picture: Evangelist Luke) .

personal data
SURNAME	Banco, Nanni di
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor of the Florentine School
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1384
PLACE OF BIRTH	Florence
DATE OF DEATH	February 13, 1421

[:0-1] Stefan Dürre: Seemann's Lexicon of Sculpture . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 288 f. (with picture: Evangelist Luke) .